To be honest, I never understood why Apple left the approach of building wooden computers after Apple I—at least from an aesthetic standpoint. The heat? The moisture? The durability? Come on! There is much more elegance, beauty, and naturalness in wood rather than cheaply manufactured, smelly, and ecologically harmful plastic. That's why I convert from time to time, when the computational spirit is still willing, but the plastic flesh is weak – in this case a hinge in my notebook that broke the cover and display components – a broken notebook to a wooden desktop computer. This is HAL 2, the successor of HAL 1.

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